Your Next Kool Gothic Beach Read is Coming...

Behind this kool Jeffrey Catherine Jones cover lurk...

Vampires!
Werewolves!
A stormy night!
A spooky old castle!

A beautiful woman in a nightgown!

This never-reprinted book-length tale from DC's Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #3 (1972) begins tomorrow, and continues for the rest of the week, chilling your blood as you read it under an umbrella on a blanket or extra-large towel on a hot beach!
(Don't forget an iced beverage!)

Note: if you think the cover above is eye-grabbing (which it is), here's the ink-and-wash original art...

...which was mezzotint-screened, then flat-colored, unfortunately losing a lot of detail in the process.

DC's production budget didn't allow for doing full-color photographic separations from color art, but that didn't stop innovative Production Manager Jack Adler from trying to get paperback cover-style imagery on the Gothic romance books as we showed HERE and HERE,